The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.137

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to the throne was probably in A.D. 1177. And there are indications that he was associated in the sovereignty, with Sôvidêva, from some time in A.D. 1176.¹ An inscription at Harihar, the date of which is illegible,² mentions Kalyâna as the capital of Saṅkama. And the Kukkanûr inscription of A.D. 1178 shews that he also had a second seat of government at Modegaṇûr. The records of his reign³ mention, as feudatories and officials, the Mahâpradhâna, Lâlakhaṇḍeyakârar-adhishṭhâyaka, and Daṇḍanâyaka Lakhmidêvayya, with the date of A.D. 1178; the Daṇḍanâyaka Kâvaṇa or Kâvaṇayya, "the upraiser of the sovereignty of the Kalachuryas," and the commander-in-chief of all the forces, who is mentioned in the Harihar inscription as having come to the Banavâsi province after having conquered the southern country, and in the Baḷagâmve inscription of A.D. 1179 as having come to that place in the course of a pleasure-trip to the southern provinces, which he had made in company with the Piriya-Daṇḍanâyaka Lakmidêva, the Baḷhattara-niyôya-adhishṭhâyaka Chaṇḍugidêva, the Daṇḍanâyaka Rêchaṇayya, and the Sarvâdhikârin and Daṇḍanâyaka Sôvaṇayya;⁴ the Mahâpradhâna, Banavâsi-nâḍa-hergaḍe, and Daṇḍanâyaka Kêsirâjayya, with the date of A.D. 1179, who is elsewhere mentioned as governing the Banavâsi twelve-thousand, at Baḷagâmve, in conjunction with the Mahâpradhânas Kâvaṇa and Sômaṇa; the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Saṁpakarasa,